title: Sarcoidosis and coronary bypass surgery: a case report.
abstract: Sarcoidosis, a chronic granulomatous disease with unknown etiology and pathogenesis, affects the skin and many other organs and has a course characterized by remissions and relapses. We describe a patient with sarcoidosis, which we diagnosed retrospectively after we had difficulties in harvesting the left internal thoracic artery because of giant and disseminated mediastinal lymphadenopathies on the anterior thoracic wall during urgent coronary artery bypass surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. ceyildiz@yeditepe.edu.tr
authors.forename: Cenk Eray
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Mehmet Umit
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Ergenoglu
authors.forename: Halit
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yerebakan
authors.forename: A Isin Dogan
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Ekici
authors.forename: Nalan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Selcuk
authors.forename: Deniz Suha
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Kucukaksu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000379:methods*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*